Armed men attempted Friday evening to storm a building in a major police compound in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city and its economic and financial capital, we learned from official sources and from witnesses.
“The number of assailants is not yet known precisely,” Sindh provincial information minister Sharjeel Inam Memon told local Geo TV.
Ambulances and police vehicles rushed to the site of the attack, a complex made up of several official police buildings and residences for the police and their families, said an AFP correspondent who reported the incident. an intense firefight.
The Karachi region is regularly the scene of attacks from Islamist groups, such as the Pakistani Taliban, or separatists, such as the Baloch separatists.
02/17/2023 17:20:39 – Karachi (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
